The Official Movie Thread

[challenge_everything]

You've been to Iran? That's pretty wild.

It's not really wild, aside from the driving. too many stereotypes about this country. the people are very warm and friendly. and it's safe too. or at least it was before covid.

 

[CiG]

It's not really wild, aside from the driving. too many stereotypes about this country. the people are very warm and friendly. and it's safe too. or at least it was before covid.

I don't mean the country is wild, but rather that it's wild you've been there in the first place. Was it just for a holiday?

 

[challenge_everything]

My wife's Iranian so mainly to see family. But the two of us have also done a fair bit of travel around.

 

[no country for old wainds]

that's neat. everyone should watch an iranian movie at some point in their lives (or, yknow, visit there i guess), there's nothing quite like them.

 

[challenge_everything]

Most Iranian movies are, however, somewhat deceitful with regards private life. Movies like A Separation, Under the Shadow, The Salesmen etc featuring educated characters still respecting the morality laws inside their private residences are a distortion purely to avoid unwanted govt attention. Eg no-one veils up at home except in the movies.

 

[CiG]

I seem to recall Under the Shadow's lead not veiling up inside the home.

 

[challenge_everything]

I seem to recall Under the Shadow's lead not veiling up inside the home.

Yeah my memory might be failing on that one.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

fuck the other movies
i'm waiting for these
https://mashable.com/video/marvel-movies-phase-4-black-panther-wakanda-forever/

 

[no country for old wainds]

Most Iranian movies are, however, somewhat deceitful with regards private life. Movies like A Separation, Under the Shadow, The Salesmen etc featuring educated characters still respecting the morality laws inside their private residences are a distortion purely to avoid unwanted govt attention. Eg no-one veils up at home except in the movies.

to be fair to farhadi though that's one of his conscious themes, even if they have to be deceitful on the surface. the salesman especially is specifically about the public/private divide and representation of such; there's that funny (and out of necessity very subtle) running joke at the expense of the censors about how the supposedly unseen prostitute is actually the sister who's playing the prostitute in the play (if i'm remembering correctly). kiarostami and panahi are also impishly self-aware about stuff like that i think even if they can't do it openly.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

that funny (and out of necessity very subtle) running joke at the expense of the censors about how the supposedly unseen prostitute is actually the sister who's playing the prostitute in the play.

a running joke about a suposedly unseen character actually being one of the seen characters
that sounds like american comedy

 

[CiG]

fuck the other movies
i'm waiting for these
https://mashable.com/video/marvel-movies-phase-4-black-panther-wakanda-forever/

Black Panther is dead mate, that movie is going to be retarded.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

Black Panther is dead mate, that movie is going to be retarded.

the problem with that movie is that the architects of the MCU knew chadwick boseman had the terminal condition before he even knew it himself
the scripts for these are so inter-woven that this "black-panter-movie-whithout-T'Challa" had a script that was already set-in-stone even before chadwick actually died
similar problem with guardians 3
they supposedly "had to fire" james gunn as director but the movies are so inter-woven that they still ended up having to use james gunn's script

for new Black Panther movie i personnaly really would have just done a chadwick boseman look-alike-contest and had a movie with T'Challa in most of the scenes already start filming before the day boseman died

EDIT
aside from Black Panther being probably horrible
the other phase 4 MCU movies look like they could be awesome

 

[CiG]

Pretty sure they hadn't filmed anything for Black Panther 2 before he died, also what evidence is there that "the architects of the MCU" knew he had cancer before even he did? That sounds retarded.

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

Pretty sure they hadn't filmed anything for Black Panther 2 before he died, also what evidence is there that "the architects of the MCU" knew he had cancer before even he did? That sounds retarded.

the way they have "healthy lifestyles" and medical checks written into their contracts
maybe no one knew boseman had cancer "before he knew it himself" but i gaurantee some executives at Marvel found out about 5 min after he did
they might have held-off filming untill after boseman died (which may not even be out of respect for him, the delay was COVID-19 and possibly guardians 3 getting delayed)
but i gaurantee that script we're seeing was already set-in-stone before he died
(at least some huge pieces of the script, if not the entire thing)

 

[CiG]

Oh okay so you're just randomly making shit up. Should have known.

 

[no country for old wainds]

lesson #6342 in why you don't engage with the resident brain damaged toesucking retard

 

[challenge_everything]

you liked all that airtime for fucking kano and sonya blade?? Damn that was annoying

Ending was cool. Has the game franchise become sub zero vs scorpion or this solely on the movie? Not hip to this anymore

Kano's one liners was the best thing about it. Cole Young was one of the most boring characters ever. Shang Tsung was incredibly lame too.

 

[rms]

God damn kano try hard and raiders fucking lisp hahaha casting director stunk it up

 

[CiG]

Nothing worse than some Aussie actor mugging for an international audience.

 

[challenge_everything]

Nothing worse than some Aussie actor mugging for an international audience.

It came close to that but I thought he was actually pretty funny. Better than all the other bland characters at least.